Mountain Home, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second-degree murder.

niel Ruiz Ortiz appeals from his convictions for second-degree murder and a violation of a no contact order, alleging that the district court erred when it denied his motion to suppress evidence discovered during a warrantless search of his home and during a subsequent search conducte... More...    $0 (01-08-2025 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory.

Premises liability is almost always controlled by the law of negligence, and it's usually seen in the context of injuries resulting from dangerous conditions on property that aren't remedied or warned of. The owner or occupier who controls property owes a du... More...    $1 (02-01-2024 - ID)

Boise, Idaho personal injury car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages and/or injuries.

This case was filed in the Fifth Judicial District - Twin Falls, CV42-22-03607 and was removed to federal court by the Defendant.

Idaho Auto Negligence Law

Duty of Care: Every driver in... More...    $1 (11-22-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho personal injury bus wreck lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on auto negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in damages and/or injuries.

Idaho Auto Negligence Law:

Duty of Care: Every driver in Idaho has a duty to operate their vehicle safely and follow traffic laws to avoid harming others. This includes avoiding behaviors... More...    $1 (02-09-2023 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud and falsification of records.

Nicholas Jones, age 36, from Boise, was a small business owner who applied for and received $753,600 in COVID-19 relief funds, primarily from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program. Despite certifying that the funds would only be ... More...    $194564 (10-19-2022 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with
wire fraud.

Trina Welch, age 49, of Osburn, Idaho, was employed by Kasco of Idaho, LLC as a bookkeeper from 2012 until 2019. Kasco is a construction and telecommunication company that does work in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska. Beginning in at least 2013 and continuing until the day she was termina... More...    $0 (09-19-2022 - ID)

Boise, Idaho civil litigation lawyer sued Defendants on a real property law theory.

This matter has a long and convoluted backstory spanning multiple cases and appeals. The principal actors in this saga are Ford Elsaesser, the personal representative of the Estate of Victoria H. Smith (the "Personal Representative"),[1] and Vernon K. Smith ("Vernon"), a son of Victoria and the attorney fo... More...    $0 (07-08-2022 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho causing a fire in a recreational area charge criminal defense lawyer represented William Scott Halford, 50, of Burley, was charged for causing a fire, other than a campfire or the industrial flaring of gas, to be ignited by any source.

According to court records, Halford started five fires in the Milner Recreation Area on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land west of Burle... More...    $0 (07-07-2021 - ID)

Boise, Idaho criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.

Douglas Wold, 48, of Meridian, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and one count of money laundering based on schemes to defraud his employer, Fry Foods, Inc., during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael ... More...    $0 (05-19-2021 - ID)

Boise, Idaho Clean Water Act violation criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants, 4 Brothers Dairy, Inc. and Andrew Fitzgerald, who were charged with unlawful discharge of pollutant into a water of the United States, a misdemeanor.

4 Bros. is a dairy and concentrated animal feeding operation operating in Shoshone with at least 1,000 head of cattle. It maintains waste-water lagoons ... More...    $0 (04-02-2021 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud charge lawyer represented Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was concealment of assets in bankruptcy.

According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petition... More...    $0 (01-09-2021 - ID)

Pocatello, Idaho criminal defense bankruptcy fraud lawyer

Andrew Welch, 46, of Idaho Falls, was charged with concealment of assets in bankruptcy.

According to court records, Welch, a former pharmacist in Ketchum, Idaho, filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on April 3, 2014, after the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy revoked his pharmacist license. In the bankruptcy petiti... More...    $0 (12-28-2020 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene, ID - Wire fraud charge criminal defense lawyer represented Jamie Gillette, age 53, who was charged with r wire fraud and making and subscribing a false tax return.

According to court records, from in or about 2011 through in or about 2015, Gillette devised a scheme to defraud, and to misappropriate without authority money and property belonging to her employer, Bendable Bri... More...    $0 (11-18-2020 - ID)

Boise, ID - The United States of America charged Alexandr Stricharskiy with distribution of meth.

Alexandr Stricharskiy, 40, of Meridian, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in prison for distributing fifty grams or more of pure methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Stricharskiy to pay a $2,500 ... More...    $0 (01-29-2020 - ID)

Boise, ID - The United States of America charged Alexandr Stricharskiy with distributing meth.

Alexandr Stricharskiy, 40, of Meridian, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in prison for distributing fifty grams or more of pure methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Stricharskiy to pay a $2,500 fine... More...    $0 (01-20-2020 - ID)

Boise, ID - The United States of America charged David Hansen with wire fraud.

David Hansen, 48, of Idaho Falls, pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Pursuant to a written plea agreement filed with the court, Hansen pleaded guilty to count 16 of the superseding indictment.

According to court records, Hansen was the Chief Executive Officer and a 90-percent partner in Yellowstone Partner... More...    $0 (12-29-2019 - ID)

Missoula, MT - Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Concealing Assets During His Bankruptcy

Randall Alan Franz, a 59-year-old resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced on Thursday to 8 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $205,084.79 in restitution after pleading guilty to concealing assets in bankruptcy. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana Christ... More...    $0 (08-20-2018 - ID)

Smalley was employed at an assisted living facility and worked alone as the overnight caregiver. The victim, F.B., was a 102-year-old patient at the facility who had arthritis, wore
hearing aids, and spoke with a low voice. Her hands were deformed from the arthritis, she could only eat with a large-handled spoon, and she had difficulty swallowing. F.B. could not walk, sit up, stand, dress ... More...    $0 (05-13-2018 - ID)

Investigative journalism has long been a fixture in the American press, particularly with regard to food safety.1 In the early 1900s, Upton Sinclair highlighted conditions in the meat-packing industry in The Jungle, a novel based on his time working incognito in a packing plant.2 This case also originates in the agricultural sector�a secretly-filmed expos� of the operation of an Idaho dairy fa... More...    $0 (01-09-2018 - ID)

This case arises from Richard Gomez’s breach of a real estate agreement for the sale and purchase of residential real estate from Todd Phillips in his capacity as Trustee of Trust “A” of the Elliott Family Trust. Phillips appeals the Ada County district court’s denial of Phillips’s request to recover actual damages. After a bench trial, the district court held that Phillips’s claim for breach of c... More...    $0 (11-08-2017 - ID)

Boiese, ID - Charles Barker, et al. sued Credit Suisse, A.G., et al. on real property question issues under 28 U.S.C. 1331(s).

The claims made and defenses asserted, if any, are not available.... More...    $0 (04-24-2015 - ID)

EISMANN, Justice.
This is an appeal out of Shoshone County from a judgment: (a) denying recovery on an alleged oral promise to grant the Plaintiffs a right of first refusal with respect to a parcel of real property they were leasing, (b) denying recovery on an alleged oral promise to purchase the Plaintiffs’ buildings that were located on that property, and (c) finding that the Plaintiffs were... More...    $0 (02-24-2017 - ID)

COEUR D'ALENE, ID - Eighth Defendant in North Idaho Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

Robert Hill, 48, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone. Hill is the eighth defendant to plead guilty. Eleven defendants in total were charged in the superseding indictment which was issued by the grand jury on April 19, 2016.

Du... More...    $0 (12-06-2016 - ID)

Coeur d'Alene, ID - Third Defendant in North Idaho Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty

Augustine Jackson, 32, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamine. Jackson was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.

During the court hearing, Jackson admitted that she was part of a drug t... More...    $0 (10-19-2016 - ID)

Boise, ID - Idaho Woman Pleads Guilty to Theft of Postal Service Property

Tana Stimpson, 51, of Paul, Idaho, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft of postal service property.

According to the plea agreement, Stimpson admitted that on November 27, 2015, she sold a money order in the amount of $360 in her capacity as a U.S. Postal Service employee. Stimpson appropriated the proceeds... More...    $0 (10-16-2016 - ID)

Boise, ID - Boise Man Pleads Guilty to Destruction of Historic Trapper Cabin

Jason Reed, 22, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty to destruction of government property.

Reed admitted that in August of 2015, he caused extensive damage to the Trapper Cabin. The Trapper Cabin is a government owned historic property located at the French Creek Trailhead on the McCall Ranger District of t... More...    $0 (08-30-2016 - ID)

Boise, ID - Meridian Man Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Oxycodone Distribution

Theodore Pena, 66, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing oxycodone. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered that Pena forfeit $3,200 in drug proceeds.

According to evidence presented at the entry of plea ... More...    $0 (09-06-2016 - ID)

Boise, ID - Owner of Saul Farms Sentenced Bernard Saul to Serve 36 Months in Prison

Bernard Saul, 58, of Bliss, Idaho, the owner of Saul Farms, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the crimes of wire fraud and money laundering. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Saul to forfeit $1,903,727 and pay a fine of $7... More...    $0 (06-13-2016 - ID)